CVE-2026-68147

Published: August 12, 2026Last modified: August 14, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices() When a blk_crypto_key starts being used or is evicted, fs/crypto/ calls fscrypt_get_devices() to get the filesystem's list of block devices, then iterates over them and calls blk_crypto_config_supported(), blk_crypto_start_using_key(), or blk_crypto_evict_key() on each one. Currently, the block device pointers are placed in a dynamically allocated array. This dynamic allocation is problematic because: - It can fail, especially at the fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() call site when it's invoked for inode eviction under direct reclaim. - fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() doesn't handle the failure. It just zeroizes and frees the blk_crypto_key without calling blk_crypto_evict_key(). That causes a use-after-free. For now, let's fix this in the straightforward and easily-backportable way by switching to an on-stack array. Currently the fscrypt multi-device functionality is used only by f2fs, which has a hardcoded limit of 8 block devices. An on-stack array works fine for that. (Of course, this solution won't scale up to large number of block devices. For that we'd need a different solution, like moving the block device iteration into the filesystem. Or in the case of btrfs, which will only support blk-crypto-fallback, we should make it just call blk-crypto-fallback directly, so the block devices won't be needed.)

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749